Cuthbert Lucas

Cuthbert Lucas (1 March 1879-1958) was a Major-General of the British Army during the Second Boer War, World War I, and the Irish War of Independence.

Biography
Cuthbert Lucas was born on 1 March 1879, and he joined a Berkshire regiment of the British Army in 1898. Lucas served in the Second Boer War in South Africa, and he fought at the Battle of Gallipoli and the Battle of the Somme during World War I. By the end of the war, he was the commander of the 4th Division, and he assumed command of the 17th Infantry Brigade in Dublin, Ireland at the start of the Irish War of Independence. He was captured by the Irish Republican Army under Liam Lynch in June 1920, and he was held in East Clare until he was released four weeks later. He retired from the army in 1932, and he died in 1958 at the age of 79.